We are delighted to invite to the Book Launch for the Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, 2nd edition, jointly organised by the ILCR and St Andrews Centre for Global Law and Governance.  The Panel discussion will be moderated by ILCR Co-Director, Anthony F. Lang, Jr and will include Antje Wiener (Hamburg), Jo Shaw (Edinburg), Adam Bower (St Andrews), and Jan Wilkens (Hamburg)

This thoroughly revised Handbook presents an up-to-date political and philosophical history of global constitutionalism. By exploring the constitutional-like qualities of international affairs, it provides key insights into the evolving world order.

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“Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, 2nd edition”

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Date: Tues., 12 March 2024

Time: 5.15-6.45pm

Location: School I, St Salvator’s Quad, North Street, St Andrews, KY16 9AL.

All are welcome!

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Anthony F. Lang, Jr holds a Chair in International Political Theory in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and was the founding Director of the Centre for Global Constitutionalism. He was an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo and served as a programme officer at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, where he directed programmes on ethics and the use of force, religion and US foreign policy, and ethics in higher education. He has served as president of the International Ethics section of the International Studies Association (2003-2004), programme chair of the Human Rights Section of ISA (2006-2008), and Chair of the International Ethics section Book Prize Committee (2009-2011). He is currently one of the co-editors of the journal, Global Constitutionalism, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Political Theory, and Ethics & International Affairs. He is also commissioning editor of the new series, Global Ethics from Routledge Publishers.

Antje Wiener holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg where she is a member of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences as well as the Law Faculty. She is an elected By-Fellow of Hughes Hall University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences, and a Member of the Academia Europea. Her research and teaching centres on International Relations (IR) theory, especially norms research and contestation theory. And previously she held Chairs in International Studies at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Bath and taught at the Universities of Stanford, Carleton, Sussex and Hannover. She joined the University of Hamburg Faculty of Law in March 2024.

Jo Shaw holds the Salvesen Chair of European Institutions at the University of Edinburgh and is presently Head of Edinburgh Law School.

Adam Bower is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. He was the founding Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Governance and sits on the Steering Committee of the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research at St Andrews. He is a member of the St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science and a Fellow of the Outer Space Institute, a global network of transdisciplinary space experts. He is also a member of the management team of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. His research explores the interaction of international law and political power in shaping outcomes in global politics. 

Ruth Houghton is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Newcastle University and the Programme Director for the Global Legal Studies LLB. Her research utilises feminist methodologies combined with law and humanities approaches to explore ideas of democracy and constituent power in global constitutionalism. She has published in journals such as Global Constitutionalism and the Leiden Journal of International Law on topics including feminist utopias, feminist manifestos, and democracy.

Jan Wilkens is a senior researcher in the Synthesis project of the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change and Society” at the University of Hamburg and co-editor of the Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2023: The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming-Social drivers and physical processes. He conducts research on climate justice, just transition, energy transition, and the role of climate and technology with a regional focus on West Asia and North Africa (WANA). Recently, he has conducted fieldwork at the climate conferences in Glasgow, Sharm el-Shaikh, and Dubai. His work focuses on the intersection of norms, contentious politics, and climate justice in international relations. This interest is specifically informed by bringing together constructivist and postcolonial scholarship.